<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: CoastalCoder</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CoastalCoder</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:29:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=CoastalCoder" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CoastalCoder in "English: A vs. An"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I grew up in New England.<p>My experience is that "thuh" is basically a lazy / informal pronunciation of that word.<p>But it's also by far the most common pronunciation.  "Thee" would sound strangely hyper-formal, at least in my circles.<p>Edit: the sibling comment (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770609">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770609</a>) also rings true to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:34:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770652</link><dc:creator>CoastalCoder</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CoastalCoder in "English: A vs. An"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just curious, what is your native tongue?</p>
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<p>Crunchyroll is skating very close to this line.<p>For paid accounts they don't show ads during an episode, but they're injecting their own little things <i>before</i> some episodes.<p>My policy now is that every time they do this, I suspend my membership for 2 months.  So basically I pay them for 4 months of the year.<p>That lets me binge each complete season of anime, while still punishing their misbehavior.<p>It's trivial for them, but it feels like a small win for justice for me.</p>
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<p>Nice summary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:10:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718958</link><dc:creator>CoastalCoder</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CoastalCoder in "Compressing a flag to 11 bits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I thought a flag is 1 bit<p>Well you see, it has to implement IStateful and IBooleanExpression, and both of those involve virtual methods so you have a vtbl pointer as well.<p>So that's 64+1 bits right there.<p>Then you also have the address-alignment requirements for that vtbl pointer, so practically speaking were talking 128 bits.<p>Or 80 bits of you're rolling dirty and say "screw it" to that alignment assumption.<p>Now if your on x86-64 and want to smuggle that bit value into the unused part of that "64" bit vtbl pointer, you could probably bring it down to just 64 bits overall I guess.  Well probably want to let the compiler know about that though, before anyone tries actually using that vtbl pointer.<p>But, if we also need to make this accessible to Python, then...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:08:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707236</link><dc:creator>CoastalCoder</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CoastalCoder in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for the tip about that book!<p>I'm case it's helpful to anyone, here's one review of it: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2vxts5/comment/com56ej" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2vxts5/comme...</a><p>Seems like a tough area of history to be certain about.</p>
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<p>> This is kind of stuff is absolutely as old as time,<p>I've only very recently become interested in ancient history, so I'm still very ignorant about this.<p>Are there any particular examples of this tactic you'd suggest studying?</p>
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<p>> Prompt processing on Macs is VERY slow...<p>That sounds like a contradiction.<p>/J</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:14:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655511</link><dc:creator>CoastalCoder</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CoastalCoder in "Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just mentioning this in case it's helpful:<p>If you know ahead of time which programs / processes are at risk of unacceptably high memory usage, check out "ulimit".</p>
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<p>I think it was either the "smooth" or "acute" symbol, but it was originally rendered as (approximately) a vertical line.</p>
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<p>I think I've heard late-career engineers from the past century say similar things, although I can't remember exactly quotes.<p>I wonder if every generation of engineers ends up with such hand-wringing about the next.<p>I'm also genuinely curious what fraction of the time they were right to worry.</p>
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<p>I had a similar issue yesterday with classical Greek.  Some website used a typeface that renders one of the diacritics in a totally unfamiliar way.<p>I had to copy and paste the text into another doc and change the typeface to understand.</p>
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<p>That really interesting.<p>To be fair, modern "English" is a nebulous smorgasbord of words from a lot of different languages.  I'm sure we could afford to drop a lot of the words from clusters of synonyms.</p>
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<p>Vim!<p>(Mostly joking.)</p>
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<p>In the US, the equation isn't quite so simple.  Being unemployed can mean poor or no health insurance, which is also a health risk.<p>The economy is not in good shape right now.</p>
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<p>Wow!  I wonder what the physiology of that was.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:06:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473210</link><dc:creator>CoastalCoder</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CoastalCoder in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ooh, next do "MBAs" ;)</p>
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<p>Okay, let's use a car analogy...</p>
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<p>> Their incident-free uptime on 9-5 EST, Mon-Fri, is probably like 60%.<p>And it may be even worse in <i>EDT</i>, which is currently in effect!</p>
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<p>I don't have my reading glasses on, so at first I read the title as "My Friend <i>Arson</i>".<p>Different kind of story I reckon.</p>
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